Re: [PATCH] reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Jul 25 2018 - 20:25:32 EST


Hi Stephen,

On 07/25/2018 06:45 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-07-18 18:58:45)
>> There is a potential execution path in which function
>> platform_get_resource() returns NULL. If this happens,
>> we will end up having a NULL pointer dereference.
>>
>> Fix this by adding asanity check in order to avoid a
>> NULL pointer dereference.
>>
>> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Fixes: 97b7129cd2af ("reset: hisilicon: change the definition of hisi_reset_init")
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c b/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c
>> index 2a5015c..5dfb48b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c
>> @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ struct hisi_reset_controller *hisi_reset_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> return NULL;
>>
>> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>> + if (!res)
>> + return NULL;
>> +
>> rstc->membase = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev,
>> res->start, resource_size(res));
>
> Why can't we use devm_ioremap_resource() here instead?
>

You're right. I think we can perfectly use devm_ioremap_resource here and remove the null check.

I'll send patch for this shortly.

Thanks
--
Gustavo